Justin Pearson

Track Premiere: COMA – “This World’s a Dahmer”

November 3, 2025

San Diego D-beat crust duo COMA are a small taste of the incredible collection of bands and artists on the new Three One G/Smashed Plastic comp, Cult and Culture: A Planet B Podcast.

A Brief Reading Round-Up from the Heavy Metal Book Club

August 7, 2025

On the eve of a massive Decibel Books announcement, Kevin Stewart-Panko wants you to know what’s on his summer reading list.

Video Premiere: Satanic Planet Drops “Satanic Planet” onto a Satanic Planet

May 6, 2021

Watch Satanic Planet‘s (Dave Lombardo, Justin Pearson) new “Satanic Planet” video on this satanic planet!

Full Album Stream: Swing Kids – ‘Anthology’

October 22, 2020

Listen to everything obscure punk noisemongers Swing Kids ever recorded, via Anthology!

Justin Pearson Releases New Book, Looks Back on Provocative Musical Career

June 14, 2018

Justin Pearson of The Locust, Dead Cross, and Retox just published a book collecting lyrics from throughout his shit-disturbing musical career, and we rounded him up to talk about it.

Interview With Dead Cross: The Raw Materials Version

September 7, 2017

Here, you get to read the full complement of questions and answers with Dead Cross that was the forerunner to what made it to print in the October issue.

INTERVIEW: Retox’s Justin Pearson on punk sincerity, Ugly Animals, extremity and running for office

December 5, 2011

Clocking in at 13 minutes or so, Retox’s debut rager Ugly Animals only just falls into the LP category. But, shit, it packs enough aggression, energy and compositional cordite to compensate anybody who is bummed out from holding out for a longer running time. The San Diego quartet don’t fuck around—at least not with the…